Central Asian Crime

I currently have connections to Kabul, Afghanistan in that I live and work here. I am starting to write crime fiction short stories as well as novel based around the situation out here as well as posting true crime stories on my blog.

I am blogging here to see if my focus interests readers and writers? I also wanted to ask if anyone knows of any writer doing anything similar or any noir/crime fiction that focuses on the Central Asia? Anyone able to shine a light on any other authors? Thanks.

I have just checked out Tim's work and his page on here...whilst his books certainly appeal to me Tim's books are set in South East Asia. I was thinking along the lines of Central Asia (Uzbek, Tajik, Afghan, Kazak, Kyrgyz) or South Asian (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Thanks.

In terms of Asian crime, I've read crime set in Southeast Asia - Thailand (John Burdett's series) and Indonesia (Shamini Flint's Inspector Singh series), and I also have crime novels on my bookshelf to read set in India, Turkey, and China. I know there is a bit of Japanese crime too. I haven't heard anything from the Afghanistan region (although I'm sure there has been, or will be, a few military-style thrillers).

I know of no crime fiction from Central Asia, but good God, that part of the world has cast potential for crime writing.

For India, you might try Vikram Chandra, Akashic Books' "Delhi Noir" collection, or some of the material published by Blaft, out of Chennai, including Surender Mohan Pathak's The Sixty-Five Lakh Heist.
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